BELGRADE, 5 June 2000 C O N T E N T S : YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA MILOMIR MINIC LEAVES FOR MOSCOW YUGOSLAVIA - VIETNAM SIGNIFICANT POSSIBILITIES FOR COOPERATION YUGOSLAVIA - UN - THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL GORAN MATIC SENDS LETTER TO SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SUMMIT RUSSIA-USA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA CLINTON ADMITS MISTAKE WAS MADE IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA FROM FOREIGN PRESS UN ADMINISTRATION UNWILLING TO STEM VIOLENCE OF ALBANIANS * * * YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA MILOMIR MINIC LEAVES FOR MOSCOW BELGRADE, June 5 (Tanjug) - A delegation of Yugoslav Parliament Lower House, headed by Lower House President Milomir Minic, left on Monday for Moscow, where, at the invitation of the Russian Federation State Duma President Gennady Seleznyov, he will pay an official visit to the Russian Federation, the Yugoslav Parliament Information Service said. It is expected that President Minic and the delegation of the Lower House during a three-day visit will hold talks with the President of the State Duma and Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and with other Russian parliament officials and ranking state officials of the Russian Federation. YUGOSLAVIA - VIETNAM SIGNIFICANT POSSIBILITIES FOR COOPERATION HANOI, June 5 (Tanjug) - All necessary conditions exist for the further comprehensive development of Yugoslav-Vietnamese relations, it was said on Monday in Hanoi in the talks of Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic with his host Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen di Nien. Vietnam considers, Minister Di Nien said, that Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Yugoslavia. He urged particularly for strict compliance with UN Resolution 1244, pointing out that Vietnam supports Yugoslavia in the preservation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Minister Jovanovic arrived on Sunday evening on a four-day official and friendly visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The two Ministers underlined in cordial talks that a mutual readiness exists for developing all forms of cooperation. Minister Di Nien condemned NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia, pointing out that the military alliance was responsible not only for aggression on a sovereign country, but also obligated to rebuild what was destroyed in the bombing. The Vietnamese Minister lent full support to reactivating Yugoslavia's role in the U.N. and in the Nonaligned Movement. Stressing that Vietnam will always support Yugoslavia, Di Nien considered that Yugoslavia in the struggle to overcome difficulties it is encountering, is fighting not only for itself but also for the entire world. Minister Jovanovic called for the intensification of relations between the two countries in all spheres and particularly in the economic sphere. The Yugoslav Foreign Minister pointed out that the Yugoslav people admires the courage of the Vietnamese people with whom exist links of traditional friendship and mutual confidence. Jovanovic informed the hosts about the situation in Yugoslavia, notably in Kosovo-Metohija, where Albanian terrorists and separatists continue to terrorize Serbian and other non-Albanian populations. YUGOSLAVIA - UN - THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL GORAN MATIC SENDS LETTER TO SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS BELGRADE, June 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic sent a letter to the Ambassadors of member countries of the U.N. Security Council, following a statement made by The Hague Tribunal Prosecutor Carla del Ponte at the last Council session, the Yugoslav Information Ministry said. Following is the letter sent by Minister Matic: "Your Excellencies, I hereby address you with reference to the statement of the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Ms. Carla del Ponte at the recent meeting of the United Nations Security Council. I was astonished by Ms. Del Ponte's statement that NATO had not deliberately targeted civilian facilities and had not committed war crimes in the course of last year's aggression. Too much is too much, even if coming from Ms. Del Ponte. We are well aware of the fact that, from the very beginning, the Hague Tribunal and its prosecutor have been at the service of the NATO aggressor and against Serbia and Yugoslavia. However, we did not expect them to act so unprofessionally in this case as well and to acquit NATO and U.S. leaders of the guilt for the war crimes committed in Yugoslavia. It is up to you, your Excellencies, Ambassadors of the Security Council member states, to take immediate action in order to prevent the United Nations from becoming one of NATO's instruments. I propose that Ms. Carla del Ponte, the Hague prosecutor, be immediately relieved of her duty, and the Tribunal, as an illegal, illegitimate and demonstrably biased judicial authority be dissolved. Ms. Del Ponte has explained her decision by a cynical assessment that the said crimes do not warrant further investigation. Your Excellencies, In my capacity of the Federal Minister of Information, I wish to inform you only about the crimes. NATO, led by the United States of America, committed against the media in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The most serious was crime against the media in the course of the "air campaign" NATO committed in Belgrade, on 23 april 1999, when at 2 a.m., during a news broadcast, it bombed a symbol of Yugoslav journalism-Radio Television Serbia (RTS), situated in the very downtown area of the capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia and which is no military facility. On the contrary, from that TV station, accredited foreign TV correspondents were sending their reports, freely and without any censorship. Sixteen civilians were killed by the bombing-Yugoslav journalists and other TV news program creators of the national Radio Television Serbia. The architect of the unheard of crime at the threshold of the third millennium, according to his own statements, was Richard Hoolbroke, and the direct commander and verifier of this civilian target, according to statements publicized in the international media, was U.S. President Bill Clinton! Mr. Hoolbroke is now sitting among you as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations! In its last year's air bombardment, NATO destroyed not only this central RTS news studio in Belgrade, but also the building of Radio Television Novi Sad in the capital of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, a multiethnic community, which used to broadcast daily TV programs in seven different languages of nations living in this northern Serbian province. Commercial TV stations "Kosava" and "Pink", that used to predominantly broadcast entertainment programs of TV stations of countries that committed the aggression, as well as the Yugoslav sports TV channel SOS, have also been completely destroyed. NATO also bombed and destroyed the TV Tower in Mt. Avala near Belgarde, an architectural monument of international importance, as well as 300 other telecommunications transmitters for broadcasting TV and radio programs and 17, of the total of 19, big broadcasting systems, that had been used solely for civilian purposes. NATO did all this in order to prevent the picture of horrible crimes from reaching viewers around the world, and in order that its fabricated lies can be accepted by the world as facts and as a pretext for deliberate, monstrous shelling of civilian objects. The same is now repeated regarding the implementation of Resolution 1244 (1999) on Kosovo and Metohija, where Serbs and other non-albanians have been subjected to an obvious holocaust, it is being committed by Albanian extremists - terrorists, before the eyes of the international forces, whereas the world and the Hague Tribunal are silent! Your Excellencies, Ambassadors of the Security Council member states, Do not allow this shameless acts of corrupt high officials and judges of the Hague Tribunal to stop the growing recognition of the United Nations role in the just and peaceful settlement of global foci of crises and problems in the Yugoslav and Serbian southern province of Kosovo and Metohija. Do not allow NATO, the Hague Tribunal and Carla del Ponte to turn victims into criminals and criminals into victims. Crimes, as you know, do not fall under the statute of limitations, and those who conceal them become accomplices. Your Excellencies, I avail myself of this opportunity to convey to you my best wishes for your successful work and prosperity of the United Nations and countries that your represent in our global Organization." SUMMIT RUSSIA-USA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA CLINTON ADMITS MISTAKE WAS MADE IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA MOSCOW, June 5 (Tanjug) - U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted on Sunday in Moscow that the United States had made "a mistake in Kosovo-Metohija." Clinton, who was talking in a Moscow radio program, also said that differences had surfaced with relation to that between Russia and the United States. Speaking about Kosovo-Metohija, Clinton unexpectedly and completely out of context underlined that he was in the front ranks of those who supported Russia's admission to G-8 (group of seven industrial most developed countries and Russia), that he supported partnership relations of Russia and NATO, as well as all Russia's efforts in the economic field. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was satisfied with the results of talks he held on Sunday with the Russian President. FROM FOREIGN PRESS UN ADMINISTRATION UNWILLING TO STEM VIOLENCE OF ALBANIANS LONDON, June 5 (Tanjug) - The U.N. administration in Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) is "apparently unwilling" to take measures to stem the violence of Kosovo-Metohija Albanians over Serbs and other non-Albanians, the London Guardian warned on Monday. That is why, the newspaper has learnt, UNMIK employees are disappointed and believe that the international community is not ready to deal with Albanian terrorism and organized crime. Also apparent, the newspaper specified, is that U.N. mission leaders do not want to acknowledge the responsibility of some Kosovo-Metohija Albanian leaders who are believed to be directly implicated in violence and crime. That is viewed as one of the reasons why the international forces (KFOR) are unable to protect Kosovo-Metohija Serbs although on every three remaining members of the Serbian community there is one KFOR soldier. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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